{"id":13957,"date":"2026-03-10T08:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/a-guardian-angel-saved-his-life-on-christmas-eve\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:33:56","slug":"a-guardian-angel-saved-his-life-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/angels\/a-guardian-angel-saved-his-life-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guardian Angel Saved His Life on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife, Arbutis, and I graduated high school in May 1960 and wed that June. We couldn\u2019t wait to start our married life! We set up house in Knoxville, Tennessee, <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/living-longer-living-better\/centenarian-newlyweds-prove-love-has-no-age-limit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enjoyed a newlyweds\u2019 summer<\/a> and watched the fall leaves change together. But that winter, on our first Christmas Eve as husband and wife, I was finishing up a job three hours away.<\/p>\n<p>Money was tight, and I\u2019d picked up work in Nashville for a few days, installing a marble floor in a bank. The construction company had set me up in a motel room and lent me a truck for the trip. I woke early on Christmas Eve morning more anxious than ever to get back to her. I\u2019d wrap up the job by afternoon and hit the road home. I packed my bag, checked out of the motel and sprinted through freezing rain to the truck in the parking lot. I sat behind the wheel, warming up the engine to defrost the windshield, thick with ice.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts of Arbutis were enough to warm me. She\u2019d no doubt have a special dinner waiting when I walked in the door for a cozy <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/gods-grace\/a-christmas-eve-coincidence-saves-a-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas Eve<\/a>. As soon as the windshield was clear, I headed off to complete my flooring.<\/p>\n<p>My project manager stopped me in the hallway sometime in the late morning. \u201cDoug, the weather forecast doesn\u2019t look good,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you\u2019re determined to get home for dinner tonight, you need to leave now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be done in a couple hours,\u201d I told him. I didn\u2019t want to have to come back. Being 180 miles away from Arbutis felt like being across the world.<\/p>\n<p>My project manager looked at me with concern. \u201cThe Cumberland Mountains lie between here and Knoxville. If you wait and the state closes the highway, you could get stranded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/life-advice\/3-quick-ways-to-boost-your-confidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smiled with the confidence<\/a> that only an 18-year-old can feel. \u201cI will cross that bridge when I come to it,\u201d I said. For the next few hours, I didn\u2019t think about anything but the floor I was installing. When the job was done, I walked back out to the truck. The weather wasn\u2019t letting up, as predicted, but I wasn\u2019t worried. I grew up in the mountains of Tennessee. I knew how to drive through them, even in a winter storm.<\/p>\n<p>I warmed up the truck to melt the fresh ice on the windshield and headed toward Knoxville. There were already a few abandoned vehicles at the foot of the mountain, next to a trooper\u2019s car with its lights blinking.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway up the mountain, my steering wheel turned sluggish as I rounded a turn. I tugged it to the left, but the truck veered to the right. I had to pull over to the shoulder. It didn\u2019t take long to figure out the problem. My left front tire was almost flat. <i>Probably picked up a nail at the job site,<\/i> I thought.<\/p>\n<p>I flicked on the caution lights and got to work changing the tire. It wasn\u2019t much fun doing it in the freezing rain, but I knew what I was doing. In no time I was tightening the last lug. <i>A couple more turns\u2026<\/i> The blare of an air horn made me look up. A Tennessee State <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/gods-grace\/3-stories-of-divine-intervention-on-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dump truck had just rounded the curve<\/a> and was bearing down on me, its lights flashing. <i>God, please don\u2019t let the driver lose control.<\/i> I pressed myself tight against my truck. Instinct shut my eyes tight.<\/p>\n<p>Everything went dark and silent. I felt warm and safe. The blinding lights, the air horn, the icy rain\u2014all my senses were <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/angels\/guardian-angels-gods-protective-messengers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrapped in a protective shroud<\/a>. <i>Did the truck hit me? Is this death?<\/i> A hand touched my shoulder, and again I was aware of the cold, the rain, the fright I\u2019d felt. I opened my eyes to the dump truck driver standing beside me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you all right?\u201d The man\u2019s voice was trembling. \u201cI called the state police on my radio. I struck the person standing behind you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe person behind me?\u201d I said. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t anyone with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The driver peered into the freezing rain, as if in shock. He insisted he\u2019d seen someone. State police arrived and questioned us separately. Sitting in the police car, I watched the truck driver and the officers search for the phantom person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no damage to your pickup,\u201d the policeman told me. \u201cNo sign that the dump truck hit anything at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what that driver thought he saw.\u201d As I said the words, I remembered the protection I\u2019d felt when I shut my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank your lucky stars,\u201d the policeman said. \u201cJudging by the tracks, the truck missed you by inches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t believe in lucky stars, but I did believe in angels. When I got home, wet and cold but happy, I told my wife all about the angel who got me home. We still talk about that night all these 60 happily married years later.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>For more angelic stories, subscribe to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopguideposts.org\/magazines\/angels-on-earth-magazine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Angels on Earth<\/strong><\/a><em> magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife, Arbutis, and I graduated high school in May 1960 and wed that June. We couldn\u2019t wait to start our married life! We set up house in Knoxville, Tennessee, enjoyed a newlyweds\u2019 summer and watched the fall leaves change together. 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